Exclusions: More Ways To Get Low-Scoring Kids Off The Books
Cool ways to juke the stats are coming out of the Land of Lincoln. First the Chicago Tribune's Stephanie Banchero revealed that schools were keeping low-scoring / credit deficient juniors out of the 11th grade testing pool by classifying them as super sophomores (Case of the missing juniors). Not that the low-scorers are being kept away from other trappings of being a junior (Forget the tests. What about the junior prom?). That way, everybody's happy.